CentralNotice The Chrysanthemum and the Sword From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the Mad Men episode, see The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Mad Men) . The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Author Ruth Benedict Original title The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture Country United States Language English Subject National Characteristics, Japanese Genre History/Anthropology Publisher Houghton Mifflin Publication date 1946 Media type Print ( Hardcover ) Pages 324 pp (first edition) ISBN ISBN 0-395-50075-3 , ISBN 978-0-395-50075-0 OCLC 412839 Dewey Decimal 952 19 LC Class DS821 .B46 1989 The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is an influential 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict . It was written at the invitatio...